I'm back once again, this time building a FTM-clone. But I am not satisfied with the amount of fuzz, it is too soft sounding and also very low volume-vise.

All of the transistors (2N3904) and are placed in the right way, same goes for the diodes (1N914). The voltages read extremely high at all the transistors, why?... It beats me!! I tried to wire both Q1, 2 and 4 emitter straight to the ground and THEN I got bit more gain but still not satisfying enough, the octave did not work in that mode either.

The octave works fine otherwise and I have noticed that the volume and gain increases when it is engaged.

Those 2 PCB's are different, therefore its likely there could be minor changes in how they are wired up. In fact, there is a major difference in one of the pots, might be the problem. Also, the ggg vol pot appears to be missing a ground wire.

Thats what I was trying to point you towards, the sustain pot is wired different on the 2 PCB's, the ggg wiring will completely stuff it up on the board you are using, check the wiring to sustain pot 1, 2 and 3, they are different.

Edit: there is some info on Bill Lawrence's drawing that tell you which wires go where. Compare that with ggg and you will see the problem.

An "awful sounding" pedal... built for the fun... And there's fun in it, indeed !!!

A+!

With the octave engaged it is pretty wild and the highs tend to be a little too harsh, at least for my taste, both with and without octave. Kinda off topic but right now I'm trying to tame this one a bit, achieving less highs and more mid and bass.